The weekend is the week’s closer.
Your go-to sports/cocktail/Cheers-influenced saloon is redefining happy hour around the World Series games—weekday and weekend. There’s $2 off Elixir IPA pints and muddled orange and cachaça Gigantes Caipirinhas for $6. Seems like a manageable good-luck ritual.
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BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES Bacon Bonbons at Gitane A cross between a European bistro and a luxe bordello, Gitane—with its moody, high-romance decor—sets an ideal scene for whiskey drinking. And as luck would have it, the goat cheese-stuffed bonbons wrapped in smoked bacon pair perfectly with bourbon—a high-romance affair of its own. |
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The guys behind this line of limited-edition boots made out of the same leather that goes into making NFL footballs will be at Unionmade tonight to talk shop over a few Anchor Steams. Boots and beer are always a trustworthy formula.
You expect happy hours to be about drinks. Seven-dollar martinis: sure, sounds about right. Add in Crispy Pig Trotter Tots with Lobster Aioli or Fried Oysters to the deal, and maybe it needs a new name...
This pre-quake downtown hotel’s seen many prominent guests come and go—sometimes forever... Which is to say that it has its fair share of ghost stories and paranormal activity dating back beyond 1906. Since walls don’t talk, drop by for a tour and find someone who does.
You’ll be in for an exclusive, passcode-required night of costumed debauchery where wine replaces candy alongside a snort of moonshine and gratis shots. Food like Blood & Guts (griddled blood sausage and 12-hour tripe stew) and the sweetbread-driven Brains in Vats will be on hand. It might help to ignore the names...
